Careers » Graduates » Training & Development

We offer a comprehensive training programme to all employees including formal training courses, a mentoring scheme and access to a variety of training materials, supported by day to day informal training within your team.

Individual training plans are tailored to graduates specific needs, depending on their role within Fidessa. Typically a graduate can expect to spend their first six weeks with us following their training plan as well as spending some time with their new team.

This initial training will cover soft skills and technical courses, including an Induction Day, an Introduction to Financial and Equity Markets and Improved Personal Effectiveness. We run a large number of in house Fidessa technical courses and those relevant will be scheduled into the tailored programme. To access a full list of our Fidessa courses, please click here.

Once the initial training programme is completed relevant advanced Fidessa courses, and soft skills training courses will be identified during informal meetings with your manager, or at your annual performance appraisal.

The company’s appraisal system sets out core competencies, with descriptions of expected behaviour across a number of levels. This is used as a tool to develop your personal training plan and to identify career progression opportunities.

Buddy and Mentoring Schemes

All new starters are offered a buddy for the first few weeks to help them settle into working at Fidessa. Your buddy will typically be someone from your team who can help you with practical things like finding your way around and where to buy the best sandwiches!

Additionally, graduates are offered a mentoring scheme. A mentor would normally be assigned after six months, and would typically be someone from a different area of the business, rather than your own team or department. Their role is to support you and help you with career planning, as well as being able to help in expanding your knowledge of the organisation.